able to think up half-a-dozen schemes for solving our little difficulties in a couple of minutes.
“Jeeves!” I shouted.
“Sir?” came a faint respectful voice from the great open spaces.
“My man,” I explained to the Right Hon. “A fellow of infinite resource and sagacity. He’ll have us out of this in a minute. Jeeves!”
“Sir?”
“I’m sitting on the roof.”
“Very good, sir.”
“Don’t say ‘Very good.’ Come and help us. Mr. Filmer and I are treed, Jeeves.”
“Very good, sir.”
“Don’t keep saying ‘Very good.’ It’s nothing of the kind. The place is alive with swans.”
“I will attend to the matter immediately, sir.”
I turned to the Right Hon. I even